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Special snowflake collision between one of the my-dogs-are-my-children variety and one of the douse-the-noisy-dog variety:

One of our neighbors was gardening, down on her hands and knees weeding next to her property wall. Her two small yappy-type spoilt brat dogs were with her and started barking at something. The next second the contents of a bucket of cold water was tossed over the wall by her next door neighbor! The next door neighbor must have assumed she was away and the dogs were acting up.

The shrill shouting went on for a while.

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It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian Tiger - from a distance, preferably separated by bars . -- Pearls Before Swine (16-May-2009)

Our city's airport is shut down right now because two men left suspicious packages around the airport and were arrested (one man was taken off a flight bound for DC). One of them supposedly told security "I have a bomb." Yet special snowflakes are whining to the TV stations "ugh, don't interrupt my show for this."

I wouldn't call this SS. To be fair, they might have been in the middle of a nail biting movie/show/game and simply didn't want it be interrupted by a news story that would no doubt be covered round the clock by a station that is mostly news or is already playing a news program. Especially if you're not in an area that the story directly affects or you are watching one of those stations that don't pause the show but pick up where it would have been without the interruption.

I agree. The 24/7 media attention to "breaking events" when there's no news actually emerging is exhausting. If I was worried about catching a flight later or somebody I knew at the airport, then I'd check an actual news channel or on line, which the vast majority of Americans have access to these days.

So I shouldn't expect to get current local news from the local station ? I should just check CNN or whatever every couple hours to see what's happened in my town that day, just so someone doesn't miss an episode of The Voice ? (that was one of the shows people whined about)

It kind of depends how the TV station is doing it.A message scrolling on the bottom of the screen and a 5/10 min "update" every hour or every commercial break, why not.A "we'll cancel the next 4h block of programing to say the same thing over and over and over with nothing new and a quick word by a police officer that cannot say anything and a passerby that didn't see anything", is, quite frankly, for an airport shutdown, too much. Way too much. Plus, seems like the threat has passed and nothing actually happened.Unless the media is used to help police investigation, in a "we are searching for these 3 men/this missing child, anyone that might have info please contact blah blah blah" it sounds like they're trying to create drama and fear mongering to drum up audience.So, A) depend what actually happened, B) depend how it's being broadcasted, Not knowing how it goes in this case, I cannot say if they're SS or not.

Our city's airport is shut down right now because two men left suspicous packages around the airport and were arrested (one man was taken off a flight bound for DC). One of them supposedly told security "I have a bomb." Yet special snowflakes are whining to the tv stations "ugh, don't interrupt my show for this."

I wouldn't call this SS. To be fair, they might have been in the middle of a nail biting movie/show/game and simply didnt want it be interrupted by a news story that would no doubt be covered round the clock by a station that is mostly news or is already playing a news program. Especially if you're not in an area that the story directly affects or you are watching one of those stations that don't pause the show but pick up where it would have been without the interruption.

I agree. The 24/7 media attention to "breaking events" when there's no news actually emerging is exhausting. If I was worried about catching a flight later or somebody I knew at the airport, then I'd check an actual news channel or online, which the vast majority of Americans have access to these days.

So I shouldn't expect to get current local news from the local station ? I should just check CNN or whatever every couple hours to see what's happened in my town that day, just so someone doesn't miss an episode of The Voice ? (that was one of the shows people whined about)

I could definitely see a "breaking news - ____________. More details at 10", but I am so TIRED of shows being interrupted to watch "news" which consists of interviewing anyone and everyone walking by to get their take on the matter. If there's actual news, fine, but that is almost never what's happening.

And yes, you should have to watch the news to get your news. Or sign up for updates to your phone if it's important to you to stay up-to-date. But just because I like my trashy tv show uninterupted by Joe Everman saying, "Oooo scary!" doesn't make me SS. Just means I want my brain candy.

I could definitely see a "breaking news - ____________. More details at 10", but I am so TIRED of shows being interrupted to watch "news" which consists of interviewing anyone and everyone walking by to get their take on the matter. If there's actual news, fine, but that is almost never what's happening.

And yes, you should have to watch the news to get your news. Or sign up for updates to your phone if it's important to you to stay up-to-date. But just because I like my trashy tv show uninterupted by Joe Everman saying, "Oooo scary!" doesn't make me SS. Just means I want my brain candy.

But your show will be on DVD at some point or be rerun again. My news stories will not

I could definitely see a "breaking news - ____________. More details at 10", but I am so TIRED of shows being interrupted to watch "news" which consists of interviewing anyone and everyone walking by to get their take on the matter. If there's actual news, fine, but that is almost never what's happening.

And yes, you should have to watch the news to get your news. Or sign up for updates to your phone if it's important to you to stay up-to-date. But just because I like my trashy tv show uninterupted by Joe Everman saying, "Oooo scary!" doesn't make me SS. Just means I want my brain candy.

But your show will be on DVD at some point or be rerun again. My news stories will not

Re: the bolded. Not always. Shows like The Voice or So You Think You Can Dance have copyright limitations that do not allow for DVD release. Furthermore, it is up to the individual station to determine if they will run a re-broadcast. I can see being annoyed at having a show like that interrupted for meaningless news updates. But OTT whining is uncalled for.

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Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not. - Uncle Iroh

I could definitely see a "breaking news - ____________. More details at 10", but I am so TIRED of shows being interrupted to watch "news" which consists of interviewing anyone and everyone walking by to get their take on the matter. If there's actual news, fine, but that is almost never what's happening.

And yes, you should have to watch the news to get your news. Or sign up for updates to your phone if it's important to you to stay up-to-date. But just because I like my trashy tv show uninterupted by Joe Everman saying, "Oooo scary!" doesn't make me SS. Just means I want my brain candy.

But your show will be on DVD at some point or be rerun again. My news stories will not

But I'm saying that it's not actual news. It's mostly conjecture and useless interviews with random people on the street. There are plenty of 24-hour local and national news channels that you could turn to if you want to see your news. But being upset or annoyed that your "news" over-taking my shows when you have other options to get what you want and me missing this show means I'm probably not going to see it again for weeks (by which time it's going to be spoiled) is not SS or anything like it.

I watched Jeopardy a couple of times when they interrupted it for a breaking news story, and it is very annoying, and no, they won't be on dvd or rerun. It is important and I do like knowing what is happening as I don't watch the news, but I also want to see what the final question is.

Ran into a snowflake this morning. In Manhattan, there are a lot of food trucks around. One of my favorite food trucks does vegan dishes and is always near my office on Wednesdays, so I always make a point to stop there to get breakfast. This one only has three people - one who acts like the cashier and give food out, and two to cook the food.

Today there was a lady who was arguing with the cashier because she thought that vegan meant peanut-free, so she was upset that some of their products had peanuts in them and they can't guarantee completely peanut-free. She was ranting and raving and monopolozing the cashier, and when he started ignoring her and tried to take other people's orders, she started yelling at the other customers, too. What a special snowflake.

"You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Ran into a snowflake this morning. In Manhattan, there are a lot of food trucks around. One of my favorite food trucks does vegan dishes and is always near my office on Wednesdays, so I always make a point to stop there to get breakfast. This one only has three people - one who acts like the cashier and give food out, and two to cook the food.

Today there was a lady who was arguing with the cashier because she thought that vegan meant peanut-free, so she was upset that some of their products had peanuts in them and they can't guarantee completely peanut-free. She was ranting and raving and monopolozing the cashier, and when he started ignoring her and tried to take other people's orders, she started yelling at the other customers, too. What a special snowflake.

"You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Coincidentally, I brought a vegan zucchini-chocolate-chip loaf to work yesterday, and I labeled it with "Vegan - nut-free". One guy came up to me and said, puzzled, "But nuts don't contain meat." I had to explain that I'd pointed out the nut-free aspect because some folks are allergic, not because I thought that vegan = nut-free and vice-versa.

A family member posted on Facebook that they wanted their wife to hurry back because he didn't know where anything was in the kitchen. I told him it was a good time for him to find out where things are in the kitchen.

You'll be glad to know that it turns out I was wrong about the family member. He's actually no stranger to the kitchen, but his wife had the kitchen set up the way she wanted it after a recent move, and because he wasn't able to help her (he was in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident that caused him to lose a leg) he doesn't know where anything is. Now that he's gotten more adept with his prosthetic leg he's started cooking again. As his mother told me, "Do you really think I'd raise a son who didn't know his way around a kitchen?"

Our city's airport is shut down right now because two men left suspicous packages around the airport and were arrested (one man was taken off a flight bound for DC). One of them supposedly told security "I have a bomb." Yet special snowflakes are whining to the tv stations "ugh, don't interrupt my show for this."

I wouldn't call this SS. To be fair, they might have been in the middle of a nail biting movie/show/game and simply didnt want it be interrupted by a news story that would no doubt be covered round the clock by a station that is mostly news or is already playing a news program. Especially if you're not in an area that the story directly affects or you are watching one of those stations that don't pause the show but pick up where it would have been without the interruption.

I agree. The 24/7 media attention to "breaking events" when there's no news actually emerging is exhausting. If I was worried about catching a flight later or somebody I knew at the airport, then I'd check an actual news channel or online, which the vast majority of Americans have access to these days.

So I shouldn't expect to get current local news from the local station ? I should just check CNN or whatever every couple hours to see what's happened in my town that day, just so someone doesn't miss an episode of The Voice ? (that was one of the shows people whined about)

I could definitely see a "breaking news - ____________. More details at 10", but I am so TIRED of shows being interrupted to watch "news" which consists of interviewing anyone and everyone walking by to get their take on the matter. If there's actual news, fine, but that is almost never what's happening.

And yes, you should have to watch the news to get your news. Or sign up for updates to your phone if it's important to you to stay up-to-date. But just because I like my trashy tv show uninterupted by Joe Everman saying, "Oooo scary!" doesn't make me SS. Just means I want my brain candy.

Even worse is the hours-long "breaking news" that it's snowing in Wisconsin. News in July, not so much in January. Besides, we know the storm is pretty ugly. That's why we stayed home from work and off the slippery, dangerous streets. Now feed my junk-TV-loving soul instead of telling me "it's still snowing". Yep. Looked out the window and goldurnit, you're right!

Our city's airport is shut down right now because two men left suspicous packages around the airport and were arrested (one man was taken off a flight bound for DC). One of them supposedly told security "I have a bomb." Yet special snowflakes are whining to the tv stations "ugh, don't interrupt my show for this."

I wouldn't call this SS. To be fair, they might have been in the middle of a nail biting movie/show/game and simply didnt want it be interrupted by a news story that would no doubt be covered round the clock by a station that is mostly news or is already playing a news program. Especially if you're not in an area that the story directly affects or you are watching one of those stations that don't pause the show but pick up where it would have been without the interruption.

I agree. The 24/7 media attention to "breaking events" when there's no news actually emerging is exhausting. If I was worried about catching a flight later or somebody I knew at the airport, then I'd check an actual news channel or online, which the vast majority of Americans have access to these days.

So I shouldn't expect to get current local news from the local station ? I should just check CNN or whatever every couple hours to see what's happened in my town that day, just so someone doesn't miss an episode of The Voice ? (that was one of the shows people whined about)

If there's nothing new actually happening, and they're just rehashing the details over and over again, then they might do better to just add a news ticker to the bottom of the screen with regular programming. Then cut in again when there are new developments. If there are new, ongoing developments, then yea, sorry, news takes priority.

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"The problem with re-examining your brilliant ideas is that more often than not, you discover they are the intellectual equivalent of saying, 'Hold my beer and watch this!'" - Cindy Couture

Our city's airport is shut down right now because two men left suspicous packages around the airport and were arrested (one man was taken off a flight bound for DC). One of them supposedly told security "I have a bomb." Yet special snowflakes are whining to the tv stations "ugh, don't interrupt my show for this."

I wouldn't call this SS. To be fair, they might have been in the middle of a nail biting movie/show/game and simply didnt want it be interrupted by a news story that would no doubt be covered round the clock by a station that is mostly news or is already playing a news program. Especially if you're not in an area that the story directly affects or you are watching one of those stations that don't pause the show but pick up where it would have been without the interruption.

I agree. The 24/7 media attention to "breaking events" when there's no news actually emerging is exhausting. If I was worried about catching a flight later or somebody I knew at the airport, then I'd check an actual news channel or online, which the vast majority of Americans have access to these days.

So I shouldn't expect to get current local news from the local station ? I should just check CNN or whatever every couple hours to see what's happened in my town that day, just so someone doesn't miss an episode of The Voice ? (that was one of the shows people whined about)

If there's nothing new actually happening, and they're just rehashing the details over and over again, then they might do better to just add a news ticker to the bottom of the screen with regular programming. Then cut in again when there are new developments. If there are new, ongoing developments, then yea, sorry, news takes priority.

And if I want to watch my local news to find out what's happening in my home town, I watch my local news. You know, the Evening News at 6, or the Nightly News at 10. The news show. I don't randomly turn on the tv and expect them to start showing the news. If I want 24hour coverage of something, then yes, I'll turn on CNN/Fox or get online. Each type of show has its own place.